Improving the assessment of cultural, religious and spiritual needs for patients at the end-of-life within an acute hospital trust.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Cultural, religious and spiritual (CRS) needs become increasingly important to individuals as they approach the end of life. CRS needs often remain unmet for patients dying in an acute hospital setting. The 'Just Ask' quality improvement project was designed to explore barriers to routine assessment of CRS needs, and to design resources and intervention to support staff to increase assessment of these needs.

Aims

The primary aim of the project was to increase the number of patients receiving end-of-life care in hospital with a documented CRS needs assessment from 43% (based on audit data) to greater than 50% over the 9-month project.

Design

The study occurred in two phases.The scoping phase evaluated the current service, enablers, barriers and confidence in

SUBMITTER: Gunawardena N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11529749 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature